Sinking Mountains
Sinking mountains: A few years ago a series called "If these stones could speak" was done by my church. During one of the sermons, I was brought back to a Bible study I had done over the previous summer. On the last night of the study, we each picked a stone. A bag was passed around my group and when the bag got to me there were three stones left. I reached in and pulled one out. I looked at it as I rolled it around in my palm and became aware that it happened to resemble a mountain. As I held it in my hands I noticed there was white at the top which to me looked like snow and the coloring of the stone itself looked like the rocks and trees of a mountain. We were told to choose something difficult that we needed to let go of that the stone could represent, and then, in a symbol of letting it go, we were to drop it in big orange buckets as we left that night. Well, I wasn't quite ready to let go of what my stone represented… it represented a huge m...